Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Gateway to Hell

Gateway to Hell

Is one of Berlin's most prized antiquities - the Pergamon Altar - actually Satan's throne on Earth?

Pergamon
The Great Altar of Pergamon.
Heike Schneider-Matzigkeit
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The iron gate opened at an unnervingly sluggish pace. The grand villa, which hosted 1942’s notorious Wannsee Conference, stood solemnly before us, framed gracefully by mournful branches. At this very location, against an idyllic fairytale backdrop of wooded suburbs and beautiful lakes, senior Nazis met in splendour to formally seal the fate of Jews across Europe. We ventured down the driveway, which offered nothing more than regimented nature and two stone statues, which would have been cherubic if they hadn’t so uncannily resembled Winston Churchill. As we stood breathing in the potent ambiance of melancholy, we noticed a solitary grey-haired gentleman who appeared to be observing the bleakly poignant building from an apprehensive distance. Politely, I nodded in his direction.

“Hello,” he barked in a thick Wild West twang.
“You’re American?” I shot back, hoping not to offend yet another Canadian.
“I’m a minister from Texas. Do you know of the evil that happened in the building before us?”

The Texas origin added up. He was a sharply dressed fellow, even in the autumn of his years, and possessed a certain no-nonsense gunslinger quality. In place of a revolver however, he brand­ished a brown, leather-bound Bible. “I’ve visited here over 30 times,” he informed my Swedish companion Frida and me. “Berlin is the gateway to Satan, so I keep coming back.”

While this chance encounter was taking an unexpected turn, I initially deduced that the man must be a fundamentalist Christian angered by Berlin’s famously liberal values and long, and still lively, tradition of burlesque decad­ence. However, I was wrong. Taking his cue from The Book of Revelation, he explained that the Great Altar of Pergamon, the defining jewel of Berlin’s world-renowned collection of antiquit­ies, the Pergamon Museum, is in fact Lucifer’s red carpet into our world.

The preacher man believed, as he explained to us, that the Altar’s removal from the Ancient Greek city of Perg­amon (now Bergama, in modern-day Turkey) and its subsequent placement in Berlin had been a precursor to both of the 20th century’s world wars – and that its sinister influence will soon bring about the next. Satan would apparently bring about WWIII during the fallout of the current economic crisis.

His calm yet intense intonation had nothing of the manic amateur thespian quality one typically associates with relig­ious fanatics. Rather, he possessed an air of Stetson-clad authority that brought to mind John Wayne or the latter-day Johnny Cash. Most captivatingly, he was clearly utterly convinced by the validity of his God-given mission to bring salvation to Berlin, Satan’s apparent heartland.

“I’m praying for you,” he declared finally.

As we continued on our original journey into the Villa Wannsee, which now acts as a muted Holocaust museum, our self-appointed spiritual guru resumed his vigil. However, peering through a window back over the driveway just moments later, I observed that, in true cinematic tradition, he had vanished.

Stepping into the mindset of fringe Christ­ianity can be challenging. It’s a place where embodiments of good and evil stalk the Earth, fighting an all-too-real war and acting as the catalysts behind significant global events. Metaphors and half measures are out of vogue, as angels, devils and supernatural parables are taken on a completely literal level. Nonetheless, whether super­stitious hyperbole or not, the Pergamon Altar’s hist­ory is undeniably intertwined with the horr­ors of war and depression.

Constructed in Pergamon in the second century BC, the Altar is commonly understood to be a dedication to Zeus or Athena. Its sculpted ‘Great Frieze’ depicts a vicious battle of mythical gods and giants, encompassing winged horses, poisonous serpents and irate lions sinking their teeth into bullnecked goliaths. A once culturally rich city of divine beauty, Pergamon fell into ruin after an economic slump made it a prime target for invaders, who left many of its inhabitants gruesomely slain.

The Altar was rediscovered in the 1870s by German engineer Carl Humann, who at the time was working on road construction in Turkey. Concerned that his finds would become the prey of locals using the area as a stone quarry, Humann elected for a short period to take up residence amongst the ghosts of Pergamon. By September 1878, in exchange for 20,000 marks, the powers behind Berlin’s museums had been authorised by the Turkish State to begin their excavation of the Pergamon ruins under Humann’s direction. “We are not totally indifferent to the implications of uprooting the remains of a great monument from its native soil to bring it to us where we will not ever again be able to offer it the light and surroundings in which it was created, and in which it once was fully effective,” wrote German archæologist Alexander Conze, a specialist in ancient Greek art, “yet we have seized it from certain, complete destruction.” [1]

However, the resurrection of the Pergamon Altar brought little good fortune to its new host city. The Altar’s relocation to Berlin was to precede the mass bloodshed of World War I by little more than a decade. The subsequent great depression, heralded by Black Tuesday, followed in 1929. Looking for political change, an economically frail Germany, suffering from high unemployment, class warfare and unparalleled inflat­ion, gave Adolf Hitler the Chancellor­ship. Not­ably, the Pergamon Altar acted as muse to head Nazi architect Albert Speer, who based Nuremberg’s Nazi rally grandstand, the ‘Zeppelintribüne’, on its imposing design.

The Pergamon Museum was badly damaged by air raids towards the end of WWII, while segments of the Altar, which had been stored for safekeeping in a Berlin bunker, were seized by the Red Army and taken back to the Soviet Union. In 1959, these pieces were returned to the GDR, along with other AWOL relics, before the Altar could be restored to its pre-war glory under the direction of archæologist Carl Blümel.

The Altar’s notoriety in Christian circles stems from the aforementioned poss­ible reference in the Book of Revelation 2:12–13:

And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.


Dr Volker Kästner is a leading archæo­logist specialising in the city of Pergamon. He has worked at the Pergamon Museum since 1982 and has been heavily involved in its continuing restoration. For him, the idea that Pergamon is “where Satan’s seat is” can be explained: “Pergamon was seen by Byzantine sources as a particularly pagan place where unchristian cults thrived, and with some imagination the Altar could resemble a throne. Secondly, the Altar’s frieze encompasses many sculpted snakes, which since Antiquity have been viewed as a symbol connected to the underworld, representing something inhuman – but it’s all speculation.”

A further stir erupted when Barack Obama apparently plundered the design of ‘Satan’s Altar’ for the epic backdrop to his Democratic nominee acceptance speech [2] following his well-documented visit to Berlin in July of 2008. This elaborate stage dressing was widely seen as a pre-election Democratic faux pas and mocked by the media and Obama’s Republican opponents, who insisted that his employment of phoney Greek columns exposed delusions of grandeur. Unsurprisingly, the allegedly Lucifer-endorsed ‘Barapolis’ also raised the collective eyebrows of conservative Christ­ians already suspicious of Obama’s supposedly leftist agenda.

On another scale entirely, this polit­ical showmanship has fuelled extremist assertions that Obama is the Antichrist incarnate poised to destroy America [3] just in time for the 2012-doomsday celebrat­ions. To put that into sobering context though, these very same people typically believe that the number of letters in Obama’s name unquestionably equates to ‘666’ and that his crowd-rousing mantra of “yes we can” is actually “thank you, Satan” mouthed backwards. Back on Planet Earth, Dr Kästner himself sees little foundation in the Obama/Pergamon connection. “As far as I am aware, Obama and his people have made no contact with the Pergamon Museum or given us any indication that they are interested in the Altar.”

Surveying the Altar today, a popular highbrow tourist attraction in the heart of Berlin, it is certainly extraordinary. At 46m long and 11m high, its stone mass reduces the spectator to insect-like obscurity.

“The sculptures contained within the Altar’s frieze are to me, extraordinarily emotional works of world class art,” says Kästner. Indeed, it’s easy to see how myths and legends have sprung from such a grand­iose work and intriguing to ponder the Altar’s great secrets, forever buried in the mists of time. Could it be an Earthly portal for Christianity’s arch nemesis? A monument imbued by the spirit of the ancient Pagan gods? A cursed harbinger of doom?

“The Pergamon Museum is the most visited museum in Berlin,” Dr Kästner informs me. “Last year, we had 1.5 million people through our doors. This year, it’s likely the Altar will have even more guests.”

Whether or not one of them will be sporting cloven hooves and a pitchfork remains to be seen.



Notes
1 Philipp Von Zabern: The Pergamon Altar, 1995.
2 'Obama's acceptance speech hit some high notes, but his themes won't hold up', CBS News, 29 Aug 2008.
3 'Obama tells country "Serve Satan" (or not)', Boing Boing, 4 April 2009.

OBAMA AT THE THRONE OF SATAN, JUNE 19, 2013

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WE ARE NOT MAKING ANY PREDICTIONS. THIS IS NOT A HYPOTHESIS. WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO SHARE IS ALL FACT. PAY VERY CAREFUL ATTENTION, BECAUSE THIS COULD BE A VERY IMPORTANT MOMENT IN WORLD HISTORY AND END TIME BIBLE PROPHECY.

THE ALTAR OF ZEUS AT PERGAMOS

REV 2: 12-13

“And to the angel of the church in PERGAMOS write, ‘These things says He who has the sharp two-edged sword: “I know your works, and where you dwell, where SATAN'S THRONE is.

THE BIBLE SAYS IT EXACTLY HERE... 
THE PERGAMOS ALTAR TO ZEUS IS SATAN'S THRONE.

Remember at the Mile High Stadium, in Denver CO, when Obama was named the DNC Candidate for President in 2008, he had them build a replica of the ZEUS ALTAR AT PERGAMOS?


Compare the two pictures... what do you notice?
Is Obama's podium in the exact location of the actual Altar to Zeus? 

ON JUNE 19, 2013 BARACK OBAMA WILL RETURN TO BERLIN,
TO THE SEAT OF SATAN, THE ALTAR OF ZEUS AT PERGAMON. 

JUNE 19, 2013--- EXACTLY 13 DAYS AFTER JUNE 6, 2013. 666


Did you notice that the Brandenburg Gate is set up as the 
THRONE OF SATAN, ALTAR OF ZEUS
Barack Obama was also in Berlin in 2008 as a Presidential candidate. Did you ever wonder why Barack Obama was making a trip to Berlin during his Presidential Campaign? My question was always... "Is he going to be President of the World?" Maybe now we see the motives behind what Obama does.

President Obama will hold a speech at the Brandenburg 

Gate on June 19... A FORMER NAZI PARTY SYMBOL!


The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate, rebuilt in the late 18th century as aneoclassical triumphal arch, and now one of the most well-known landmarks of Germany.
It is located in the western part of the city centre of Berlin, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees, which formerly led directly to the city palace of thePrussian monarchs.
It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhansfrom 1788 to 1791. Having suffered considerable damage in World War II, the Brandenburg Gate was fully restored from 2000 to 2002 by the Stiftung Denkmalschutz Berlin (Berlin Monument Conservation Foundation).[1]
During the post-war Partition of Germany, the gate was isolated and inaccessible immediately next to the Berlin Wall, and the area around the gate featured most prominently in the media coverage of the opening of the wall in 1989.
Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events and is today considered a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace.
When the Nazis ascended to power they used the Gate as a party symbol. The Gate survived World War II and was one of the damaged structures still standing in the Pariser Platz ruins in 1945 (another being the Academy of Fine Arts). The gate was badly damaged with holes in the columns from bullets and nearby explosions. Following Germany's surrender and the end of the war, the governments of East Berlin and West Berlin restored it in a joint effort. The holes were patched, and were visible for many years following the war.  SOURCE

Satan's Throne, the Pergamon (Pergamus) Altar, moved to Berlin - What will Obama say at former Nazi Party Symbol! This timeline will SHOCK YOU! READ MORE HERE...


As I said, we are not making any predictions about what could happen during this time. But I want to bring your attention to all the evidence that has been compiled to show that Barack Obama is indeed the prophesied Antichrist the Bible predicts. As the Antichrist, a trip to Satan's Throne could be symbolic in the least and at its height could be astronomical. What could possibly happen while Barack Obama is in Berlin? Let's watch and see!

Here is just a handful of the compiled evidence to show Obama to be the Antichrist.

1. Obama made a COVENANT WITH MANY when he received the Nobel Peace Prize on October 9, 2009. This was not a prize, but a pre-payment on a promise to bring the peace they had been waiting for. He has broken the covenant just as Daniel 9:27 explains. He is a traitor, he is not a man of peace. Now, exactly 3.5 years later as the Bible predicts, they want their peace prize back. Article

2. The Abomination of Desolation according to Daniel and Jesus has been fulfilled, and is fully documented. Matt 24:15. This documentation shows confirmation on three levels. 1. The details of the Abomination event itself. 2. Confirmation from the timelines of Daniel going back to 1947 and the Order to Restore Jerusalem. 3. Characteristics of the Antichrist that are fulfilled in astounding fashion by Barack Obama.

3. This is a supporting video that if you have not seen you need to take the time to see it. The evidence is astronomical. THE SON OF PERDITION: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
With everything that is happening in our world today, with all the signs we are seeing fulfilled every day of the closeness of Christ's return, and right now WW3 about to break out in the Middle East... are you on fire for the Lord Jesus Christ, is your lamp full and are you ready for Christ's Return?  
What is happening now is just one more sign that indeed all things are coming together at once, the END TIME IS NOW, AND RAPTURE AND JUDGMENT ARE IMMINENT. 
Rev 12:9 
So the dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
Revelation 12:12 is the exact description of the rapture judgment trumpet. Rejoicing and Woe all at once. It is written.

PART 2: THE THRONE OF SATAN: FROM PERGAMOS, TO BERLIN, TO... DENVER?

Please read Steve Fletcher's personal testimony that he received with his entire family. There were 20 witnesses to the SIGN the Lord sent. THE SIGN OF HIS COMING REVEALED.

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Obama’s Inglorious Return to the Seat of Satan

Obama’s Inglorious Return to the Seat of Satan



Johnny Cirucci
20 June 2013; 3:23 PM EST
In 2008, United States Senator Barack Obama spoke to 200,000 adoring fans in Berlin at the foot of the “Victory Column”—a military monument co-opted by Adolf Hitler and revamped by his chief architect, Albert Speer.
The decision to speak at the controversial site before he was anointed “president” was the same arrogance and hubris that would come to signify Obama’s tenure in office.
A little over a year ago, I was astounded to read of a very disconcerting spiritual connection beyond the obvious link to the 3rd Reich.  It was first brought to my attention via Tom Horn’s excellent book Apollyon Rising 2012:

…not far from where Obama delivered his rousing speech, is the Great Altar of Zeus in the Pergamon Museum.  According to several reports, Obama visited the Great Altar while in Berlin…
“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The One who has the Sharp Two-Edged Sword says this—‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; and you hold fast My Name, and did not deny My Faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.’” ~ Revelation 2:12-13
Antipas, the first leader and martyr of the early Christian church is believed to have been slain on this altar, slowly roasting to death inside the statue of a bull, the symbol and companion of Zeus. …
Approximately two-thousand years after Revelation 2:13 was written, German archeologists removed the massive altar of Zeus from the ruins of Pergamos and took it to Berlin, where it was restored as the centerpiece of the Pergamon Museum.  It is here that Hitler first adored it, later building an outdoor replica of it from which he gave a series of speeches that mesmerized many Germans.

Upon returning to the United States, he [Obama] immediately commissioned the construction of a Greek-columned stage from which he made his acceptance speech for his party’s nomination.
Fast forward to 2013 and Obama’s triumphal return to Berlin, this time to speak at the Brandenburg Gate.  It has been the site of ostentatious military displays by Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler but was sealed off to the Western side by the Communists when Berlin was divided.  It was there that President Ronald Reagan made the world-famous (and almost edited out) declaration, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Actually, Obama’s return was more fizzle than “triumph”.  For God, (which is what Newsweek’s Evan Thomas called him) Obama drew a mere 3% of his previous crowd—only 6,000 showed up to hear his wisdom.
To make matters worse, God’s teleprompter failed and he was forced to stumble through reading his passion off a paper script, instead.
The question continually arises, “Is Obama the anti-Christ?”
As I have already answered, Barack Obama certainly is an anti-Christ.  But as to whether or not he is the anti-Christ, only time will tell.

Text of Hillary Clinton’s Senate Testimony on Benghazi

Text of Hillary Clinton’s Senate Testimony on Benghazi



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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the September 11 attacks against the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Here is the prepared text of Hillary Clinton’s testimony on Benghazi.
SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
WASHINGTON, DC
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, Members of the Committee, thank you for this  opportunity.
The terrorist attacks in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 that claimed the lives of four brave Americans — Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen  Doherty — are part of a broader strategic challenge to the United States and our partners in North Africa. Today, I want to offer some context for this challenge  and share what we’ve learned, how we are protecting our people, and where we  can work together to honor our fallen colleagues and continue to champion America’s interests and values.
Any clear-eyed examination of this matter must begin with this sobering fact:  Since 1988, there have been 19 Accountability Review Boards investigating  attacks on American diplomats and their facilities. Benghazi joins a long list of tragedies, for our Department and for other agencies: hostages taken in Tehran in  1979, our embassy and Marine barracks bombed in Beirut in 1983, Khobar Towers  in Saudi Arabia in 1996, our embassies in East Africa in 1998, consulate staff murdered in Jeddah in 2004, the Khost attack in 2009, and too many others. Of course, the list of attacks foiled, crises averted, and lives saved is even longer. We should never forget that our security professionals get it right 99 percent of the time, against difficult odds all over the world. That’s why, like my predecessors, I trust them with my life.
Let’s also remember that administrations of both parties, in partnership with  Congress, have made concerted and good faith efforts to learn from the tragedies  that have occurred, to implement recommendations from the Review Boards, to seek necessary resources, and to better protect our people from constantly evolving  threats. That’s what the men and women who serve our country deserve. And it’s  what we are doing again now, with your help. As Secretary, I have had no higher  priority, and no greater responsibility.
As I have said many times since September 11, I take responsibility. Nobody is more committed to getting this right. I am determined to leave the State  Department and our country safer, stronger, and more secure.Taking responsibility meant moving quickly in those first uncertain hours and days  to respond to the immediate crisis and further protect our people and posts in highthreat areas across the region and the world. It meant launching an independent investigation to determine exactly what happened in Benghazi and to recommend steps for improvement. And it meant intensifying our efforts to combat terrorism and support emerging democracies in North Africa and beyond.
Let me share some of the lessons we have learned, the steps we have taken, and the  work we continue to do.
First, let’s start on the night of September 11 itself and those difficult early days. I  directed our response from the State Department and stayed in close contact with  officials from across our government and the Libyan government. So I saw firsthand what Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen called “timely” and “exceptional” coordination. No delays in decision-making. No denials of support from Washington or from the military. And I want to echo the Review Board’s praise for the valor and courage  of our people on the ground – especially the security professionals in Benghazi and Tripoli. The Board said our response saved American lives in real time – and it did.
The very next morning, I told the American people that “heavily armed militants  assaulted our compound” and vowed to bring them to justice. And I stood with  President Obama as he spoke of “an act of terror.”
You may recall that in that same period, we also saw violent attacks on our embassies in Cairo, Sanaa, Tunis, and Khartoum, as well as large protests outside many other posts where thousands of our diplomats serve.
So I immediately ordered a review of our security posture around the world, with particular scrutiny for high-threat posts. We asked the Department of Defense to join Interagency Security Assessment Teams and to dispatch hundreds of additional Marine Security Guards. I named the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for High Threat Posts, so Missions in dangerous places get the attention they need. And we reached out to Congress to help address physical vulnerabilities, including risks from fire, and to hire additional Diplomatic Security personnel. Second, even as we took these steps, I also appointed the Accountability Review Board led by Ambassador Pickering and Admiral Mullen so that we could more fully understand what went wrong and how to fix it.
I have accepted every one of their recommendations — and I asked the Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources to lead a task force to ensure that all 29 of them are implemented quickly and completely… as well as to pursue additional steps above and beyond those in the Board’s report. Because of the effort we began in the days after the attacks, work is already well  underway. And, as I pledged in my letter to you last month, implementation has  now begun on all 29 recommendations. Our task force started by translating the recommendations into 64 specific action items. All of these action items were assigned to specific bureaus and offices, with clear timelines for completion. Fully 85 percent are on track to be completed by the end of March, with a number completed already.
We are taking a top-to-bottom look, and rethinking how we make decisions on where, when, and how our people operate in high threat areas, and how we respond to threats and crises.
As part of our effort to go above and beyond the Review Board’s recommendations, we are initiating an annual High Threat Post Review chaired by the Secretary of State, and ongoing reviews by the Deputy Secretaries, to ensure pivotal questions about security reach the highest levels. And we will regularize protocols for sharing information with Congress.
All of these actions are designed to increase the safety of our diplomats and development experts and reduce the chances of another Benghazi happening again.
Now, in addition to the immediate action we took and the Review Board process, we have been moving forward on a third front: addressing the broader strategic challenge in North Africa and the wider region. Because Benghazi didn’t happen in a vacuum. The Arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region. And instability in Mali has created an expanding safe haven for terrorists who look to extend their influence and plot further attacks of the kind we saw just last week in Algeria. And let me offer my deepest condolences to the families of the Americans and all the people from many nations who were killed and injured in the recent hostage crisis. We remain in close touch with the Government of Algeria and stand ready to provide assistance if needed. We are seeking to gain a fuller understanding of what took place so that we can work together to prevent terrorist attacks like this in
the future.
Concerns about terrorism and instability in North Africa are not new. Indeed they have been a top priority for our entire national security team. But after Benghazi, we accelerated a diplomatic campaign to increase pressure on al Qaeda in the
Islamic Maghreb and other terrorist groups across the region.
In the first hours and days, I conferred with the President of Libya and the Foreign Ministers of Tunisia and Morocco. Two weeks later, I met with regional leaders at the United Nations General Assembly and held a special meeting focused on Mali and the Sahel. In October, I flew to Algeria to discuss the fight against AQIM. In November, I sent Deputy Secretary Bill Burns to follow up in Algiers. And then in December, he co-chaired the Global Counterterrorism Forum in Abu Dhabi and a meeting in Tunis of leaders working to build new democracies and reform security services.
In all these diplomatic engagements, and in near-constant contacts at every level, we have focused on targeting al Qaeda’s syndicate of terror – closing safe havens, cutting off finances, countering extremist ideology, and slowing the flow of new recruits. We continue to hunt the terrorists responsible for the attacks in Benghazi and are determined to bring them to justice. And we’re also using all our diplomatic and economic tools to support the emerging democracies of the region, including Libya, to strengthen security forces and provide a path away from extremism.
The United States must continue to lead… in the Middle East and all around the globe. We have come a long way in the past four years. We cannot afford to retreat now. When America is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences. Extremism takes root, our interests suffer, and our security at home is threatened. That’s why Chris Stevens went to Benghazi in the first place. Nobody knew the dangers better than Chris, first during the revolution and then during the transition.
A weak Libyan government, marauding militias, even terrorist groups… a bomb exploded in the parking lot of his hotel, but he didn’t waver. Because he understood that it was critical for America to be represented in that pivotal place at that pivotal time.
Our men and women who serve overseas understand that we accept a level of risk to protect this country we love. They represent the best traditions of a bold and generous nation. And they cannot work in bunkers and do their jobs.
It is our responsibility to make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs and to do everything we can to reduce the risks they face.
For me, this is not just a matter of policy… it’s personal.
I stood next to President Obama as the Marines carried those flag-draped caskets off the plane at Andrews. I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters.
It has been one of the greatest honors of my life to lead the men and women of the State Department and USAID. Nearly 70,000 serving here in Washington and at more than 275 posts around the world. They get up and go to work every day – often in difficult and dangerous circumstances thousands of miles from home –because they believe the United States is the most extraordinary force for peace and progress the earth has ever known.
And when we suffer tragedies overseas, the number of Americans applying to the Foreign Service actually increases. That tells us everything we need to know about what kind of patriots I’m talking about. They ask what they can do for their country. And America is stronger for it.
Today, after four years in this job, after traveling nearly 1 million miles and visiting 112 countries around the world, my faith in our country and our future is stronger than ever. Every time that blue and white airplane carrying the words “United States of America” touches down in some far-off capital, I feel again the honor it is to represent the world’s indispensible nation. And I am confident that, with your help, we will continue to keep the United States safe, strong, and exceptional.
So I want to thank this committee for your partnership and your support of our diplomats and development experts around the world. You know the importance of the work they do day-in and day-out, and that America’s values and vital national security interests are at stake. It is absolutely critical that we work together to ensure they have the resources and support they need to face increasingly complex threats.
I know that you share our sense of responsibility and urgency. And while we all may not agree on everything, let’s stay focused on what really matters: protecting our people and the country we all love.
Now I am now happy to answer your questions.

The revealing, occasionally hateful, formerly anonymous tweets of a White House insider

The revealing, occasionally hateful, formerly anonymous tweets of a White House insider

October 23, 2013, at 1:31 AM
The author of the @natsecwonk Twitter account, a gossipy, often invective-laced anonymous Washington beat sheet, could have been a thousand people. The bio line: "A keen observer of of the foreign policy and national security scene. I'm abrasive and bring the snark. Unapologetically says what everyone else only thinks."
Maybe it was a journalist who covered the State Department, or a low-level contractor, or a disgruntled junior researcher at a think tank. It could even have been me (and one of its targets thought it was, for awhile).
Turns out it was someone who really was in a position to dish.
The Daily Beast disclosed yesterday that @natsecwonk was the online ego of Jofi Joseph, 40, a senior director of non-proliferation policy on the National Security Staff.
And that means his 2,218 tweets amount to a real-time roman a clef about the Obama administration from the perspective of an insider with access to highly classified, highly sensitive information, as well as the online alter ego of a policy wonk.
The account was disabled last week, but you can read and search through all of the tweets here.
Joseph, a former Senate staffer who worked in the non-proliferation shop at the State Department when Hillary Clinton was the secretary, portrays virtually all of his superiors as kiss-ass incompetents surrounded by sycophants.
He tweeted that his one-time boss, then-National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, "only selects young attractive women" for office positions.
His tweets about public officials and politicians verged on the hateful:
About Ann and Tagg Romney: "Has rich kid Tagg Romney ever even been in a fight? What a piece of shit. He needs to tell his mom to lose about 15 pounds...."
On Chelsea Clinton: "Who are the two blondes flanking Chelsea? And is it just me, or has she put on some weight?"
On Liz Cheney: "What happens when rank nepotism meets sheer stupidity. Also, she takes after her father — she's like 30 pounds overweight."
On Beau Biden: "Here's me and Dad, calling up an escort service for a little 'company' this fine summer afternoon! RT @BeauBiden: pic.twitter.com/fcAZXKD9TS"
On Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter: "In a town full of egos, Ash Carter may have one of the largest. Unlikely that he views a mere ex-politician as an intellectual equal."
@natsecwonk regularly made fun of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), mocking the South Carolinian's sexuality and affect.
He settled other scores anonymously.
A September 7 tweet noted that the "Rice aide" who was angling for Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken's job should note that he was "not leaving" the administration any time soon.
He tweeted that Donilon urged Obama not to promote Michele Flournoy, once the undersecretary of defense for policy, because he thought she was "too close to the generals," noting that Donilon himself was "not a fan of the generals!"
He had particular ire for Clinton's staff and anyone associated with her, as well as for Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser who is most closely associated with President Obama's foreign policy vision.
"When will the administration learn that trotting out [Rhodes] to make a substantive case on foreign policy is eye-rolling?" he tweeted on September 4, after the administration publicly changed course on whether to punish Syria for using chemical weapons. He then tweeted that Rhodes was a "P.R. flack" given to "pablum."
His perch afforded him access to sensitive internal debates, and his tweets occasionally offered clues to his identity. On September 2, he asserted that President Obama did not ask Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel or Secretary of State John Kerry before he made the decision to ask Congress to authorize his use of force in Syria. He also noted that the president's chief legislative liaison was "not in the room for any of those meetings, underscoring how marginal he is." A few days earlier, he tweeted that while "[w]e all enjoy hating on Don Rumsfeld, [h]e makes [a] valid point that Obama has not yet laid out genuine case for military strike." Joseph was happy, days later, when Obama overruled his advisers and asked Congress to put skin in the game. He occasionally writes of dealing with "annoying" staff members on Capitol Hill.
Jofi, as @natsecwonk, admired President Obama but called many of his foreign policy appointments "crappy." Denis McDonough, now Obama's chief of staff, is regularly portrayed as the single center of gravity in the administration, someone Obama trusts and listens to more than any of his advisers. His tweets do not suggest that he strongly disagreed with Obama's policy decisions, although he routinely castigated White House press secretary Jay Carney and Rhodes for how they were sold to the public.
Occasionally, he would give journalists "homework assignments," like his August call for a story about Salman Ahmed, an aide slotted to become senior director for strategic communications under National Security Adviser Susan Rice. Ahmed, he tweeted, is Rice's "mysterious consiglieri."
Republicans may find some threads to unravel. Joseph did not subscribe to any of the main conspiracy theories about the Benghazi consulate tragedy, but he often tweeted that Secretary Clinton's investigation amounted to a "whitewash." After a concussion forced Clinton to postpone her Benghazi testimony in December 2012, he begged Republicans to not "disappoint me. This Hillary 'concussion' is awfully convenient, eh, with Benghazi testimony next week, no?"

Fired WH Official Smeared Palin's Family as 'White Trash,' 'Useless Garbage'

The former White House national security adviser who was recently fired for insulting administration officials from an anonymous Twitter account blasted former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family as "white trash" and "useless garbage" that he hoped someone would be "getting rid of." 

The Daily Beast revealed the identity of @NatSecWonk on Tuesday as 40-year-old Jofi Joseph, who was a "senior director of non-proliferation policy on the National Security Staff." Though Joseph's Twitter account has since been deleted, mainstream media journalist Marc Ambinder curated the tweets.
On October 24, 2012, Joseph tweeted from the @NatSecWonk account that Palin and her "white trash family" were "utter useless garbage."
@NatSecWonk 24 Oct So when will someone do us the favor of gettingrid of Sarah Palin and the rest of her white trash family? What utter useless garbage....
According to Ambinder, Joseph was also "a former Senate staffer who worked in the non-proliferation shop at the State Department when Hillary Clinton was the secretary."

The revealing, occasionally hateful, formerly anonymous tweets of a White House insider

The revealing, occasionally hateful, formerly anonymous tweets of a White House insider

October 23, 2013, at 1:31 AM
The author of the @natsecwonk Twitter account, a gossipy, often invective-laced anonymous Washington beat sheet, could have been a thousand people. The bio line: "A keen observer of of the foreign policy and national security scene. I'm abrasive and bring the snark. Unapologetically says what everyone else only thinks."
Maybe it was a journalist who covered the State Department, or a low-level contractor, or a disgruntled junior researcher at a think tank. It could even have been me (and one of its targets thought it was, for awhile).
Turns out it was someone who really was in a position to dish.
The Daily Beast disclosed yesterday that @natsecwonk was the online ego of Jofi Joseph, 40, a senior director of non-proliferation policy on the National Security Staff.
And that means his 2,218 tweets amount to a real-time roman a clef about the Obama administration from the perspective of an insider with access to highly classified, highly sensitive information, as well as the online alter ego of a policy wonk.
The account was disabled last week, but you can read and search through all of the tweets here.
Joseph, a former Senate staffer who worked in the non-proliferation shop at the State Department when Hillary Clinton was the secretary, portrays virtually all of his superiors as kiss-ass incompetents surrounded by sycophants.
He tweeted that his one-time boss, then-National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, "only selects young attractive women" for office positions.
His tweets about public officials and politicians verged on the hateful:
About Ann and Tagg Romney: "Has rich kid Tagg Romney ever even been in a fight? What a piece of shit. He needs to tell his mom to lose about 15 pounds...."
On Chelsea Clinton: "Who are the two blondes flanking Chelsea? And is it just me, or has she put on some weight?"
On Liz Cheney: "What happens when rank nepotism meets sheer stupidity. Also, she takes after her father — she's like 30 pounds overweight."
On Beau Biden: "Here's me and Dad, calling up an escort service for a little 'company' this fine summer afternoon! RT @BeauBiden: pic.twitter.com/fcAZXKD9TS"
On Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter: "In a town full of egos, Ash Carter may have one of the largest. Unlikely that he views a mere ex-politician as an intellectual equal."
@natsecwonk regularly made fun of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), mocking the South Carolinian's sexuality and affect.
He settled other scores anonymously.
A September 7 tweet noted that the "Rice aide" who was angling for Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken's job should note that he was "not leaving" the administration any time soon.
He tweeted that Donilon urged Obama not to promote Michele Flournoy, once the undersecretary of defense for policy, because he thought she was "too close to the generals," noting that Donilon himself was "not a fan of the generals!"
He had particular ire for Clinton's staff and anyone associated with her, as well as for Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser who is most closely associated with President Obama's foreign policy vision.
"When will the administration learn that trotting out [Rhodes] to make a substantive case on foreign policy is eye-rolling?" he tweeted on September 4, after the administration publicly changed course on whether to punish Syria for using chemical weapons. He then tweeted that Rhodes was a "P.R. flack" given to "pablum."
His perch afforded him access to sensitive internal debates, and his tweets occasionally offered clues to his identity. On September 2, he asserted that President Obama did not ask Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel or Secretary of State John Kerry before he made the decision to ask Congress to authorize his use of force in Syria. He also noted that the president's chief legislative liaison was "not in the room for any of those meetings, underscoring how marginal he is." A few days earlier, he tweeted that while "[w]e all enjoy hating on Don Rumsfeld, [h]e makes [a] valid point that Obama has not yet laid out genuine case for military strike." Joseph was happy, days later, when Obama overruled his advisers and asked Congress to put skin in the game. He occasionally writes of dealing with "annoying" staff members on Capitol Hill.
Jofi, as @natsecwonk, admired President Obama but called many of his foreign policy appointments "crappy." Denis McDonough, now Obama's chief of staff, is regularly portrayed as the single center of gravity in the administration, someone Obama trusts and listens to more than any of his advisers. His tweets do not suggest that he strongly disagreed with Obama's policy decisions, although he routinely castigated White House press secretary Jay Carney and Rhodes for how they were sold to the public.
Occasionally, he would give journalists "homework assignments," like his August call for a story about Salman Ahmed, an aide slotted to become senior director for strategic communications under National Security Adviser Susan Rice. Ahmed, he tweeted, is Rice's "mysterious consiglieri."
Republicans may find some threads to unravel. Joseph did not subscribe to any of the main conspiracy theories about the Benghazi consulate tragedy, but he often tweeted that Secretary Clinton's investigation amounted to a "whitewash." After a concussion forced Clinton to postpone her Benghazi testimony in December 2012, he begged Republicans to not "disappoint me. This Hillary 'concussion' is awfully convenient, eh, with Benghazi testimony next week, no?"

Fired WH Official Claimed Benghazi Report 'Whitewash'

Fired WH Official Claimed Benghazi Report 'Whitewash'

The former national security staffer who was fired for insulting administration officials from an anonymous Twitter account suggested that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faked her concussion to avoid giving Benghazi testimony last year and claimed that the Accountability Review Board's investigation of the matter was a "whitewash."

The Daily Beast revealed the identity of @NatSecWonk on Tuesday as 40-year-old Jofi Joseph, who was a "senior director of non-proliferation policy on the National Security Staff." National Security journalist Marc Ambinder reported at The Week that Joseph was also a "a former Senate staffer who worked in the non-proliferation shop at the State Department when Hillary Clinton was the secretary."
Though the Twitter account has since been deleted, Ambinder curated the tweets.
On December 15, 2012, Joseph tweeted that Clinton's concussion was "awfully convenient, eh, with Benghazi testimony next week, no":
@NatSecWonk 15 Dec Come on Republicans. Don't disappoint me. This Hillary "concussion" is awfully convenient, eh, with Benghazi testimony next week, no
On September 15, 2013, as Congress was about to hold hearings on Benghazi, he tweeted that though he believed Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was "an ass," Issa was on to something "here with the @HillaryClinton whitewash of accountability for Benghazi."
@NatSecWonk 15 Sep @EricDKoch Look, Issa is an ass, but he's on to something here with the @HillaryClinton whitewash of accountability for Benghazi.
As Breitbart News reported, after four Americans were murdered in Benghazi by terrorists last September, Clinton reportedly fainted and was concussed, preventing her from giving testimony to Congress in December of 2012. Clinton later gave testimony to Congress in January 2013. President Barack Obama and Clinton had initially said a YouTube parody video about Muhammed was responsible for the attacks even though there was evidence indicating from the beginning that terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. The Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB), which Clinton commissioned to investigate the matter, did not even interview Clinton during the investigation. Admiral Mike Mullen actually told Congress that Clinton even saw a draft of the ARB's final report before it went public. As Breitbart News reported, the ARB was convened to determine whether government officials "breached" their duties during the Benghazi scandal, yet, no State Department official has been fired because of the Benghazi scandal and the four officials cited in the ARB were not questioned and have since been reinstated to their respective posts. 
“It has been a privilege to serve in this administration and I deeply regret violating the trust and confidence placed in me,” Joseph told Politico on Tuesday. “What started out as an intended parody account of D.C. culture developed over time into a series of inappropriate and mean-spirited comments. I bear complete responsibility for this affair and I sincerely apologize to everyone I insulted.”

Glenn Beck: Someone Finally Admitted Out Loud Why the Left Is Terrified of Ted Cruz

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Far from dismissing or ridiculing him, Glenn Beck believes liberals are actually terrified of Ted Cruz, and Beck was the first to pounce as soon as someone said out loud the exact reason why. And who was the pundit who gave away the game? None other than the fast-talking Chris Matthews.
Beck first took a swipe at the “indoctrinated” and “1984 zombie-like” masses at MSNBC before saying, “If you want to know why the left is so terrified of Ted Cruz, listen.” He played audio of Matthews unloading on Cruz, likening him to Joe McCarthy and Michele Bachmann in that infamous Hardball moment.
Beck and his co-hosts were confused by Matthews attacking Cruz in that vein, but it was all made clear as soon as Matthews said that Cruz is “the greatest challenges to progressives, to moderates, and reasonable conservatives in modern memory.” Beck was positively giddy at someone finally admitting it, saying he’s going to send Cruz a banner reading “biggest threat to progressivism.”
Beck concluded, “That’s why they’re taking him down, because he is the greatest threat to progressives in modern history. That’s fantastic.”
Watch the video below, via BlazeTV:

The Obama, Third Reich, Blavatsky, Kuthumi, Occult Connection

The Obama, Third Reich, Blavatsky, Kuthumi, Occult Connection

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Occult mediumistic channelers, or as some would say, a few ‘large mediums,’ Carolyn Evers–seen on the left (still alive), and Theosophist founder H.P. Blavatsky (who lived in the 1800s) have both channeled or contacted an ethereal spirit named Kuthumi aka Koot-Hoomi or Master K.H. Evers’ WordPress blog contains Kuthumi channeled teachings link. Many new age occult channelers, including Evers, channel strong support for Obama using various spirits. When searching the Web or occult books, no channeling support is found for McCain or Palin. Germany’s Third Reich had its foundation in occult channeling, specifically the channeled teachings of Kuthumi through Blavatsky. Here is a quote from a channeling spirit called ‘The Akashic Records’ channeled through Evers about Barack Obama:
[Barack] has come from another planet and has little experience on the Earth plane. He was sent here to be one who would change the evolution of the political scene. We see the possibility of being elected as president, whereby he will be supported by those from his home planet… link
Evers later channels more support for Obama from a different channeling spirit named Metatron. What is shocking about this quote is how Metatron calls November 4th “a new Christmas” if Obama wins, clearly mocking the birth of Jesus and putting Obama on par with the second person of the Trinity.
You can sense the pivotal point of this situation as it matches Mr. Obama’s theme that he has said many times; CHANGE. This is what this man is about…We view Mr. Obama as your next president and this example will influence humanity’s thinking on many levels…he has carried over from earlier lifetimes…This election will seem like a new Christmas again …We caution that this will take time to make these changes, but we see hope and gradual changes allowing the foundations necessary to come forth for what you are calling ascension. link
James Pinkerton of Fox news discusses on a blog an influential liberal supporter of Obama who claims to be a Luciferian. link One blog site is devoted to Obama as a new messiah. link
Before some of you laugh this off as tabloid material, know that Blavatsky’s occult material influenced WWII where millions from around the world died.
Students of 20th Century European history know that Helena Petrova Blovatsky’s occultism was foundational in formulating the Third Reich movement of Germany, most notably the occult concepts of root races and the swastika. Himmler was an ardent follower of Blavatsky’s and Kuthumi’s teachings. The following YouTube video clip from The Occult History of the Third Reich shows the influence H.P. Blavatsky had in making the swastika the national symbol of post-Christian, occult-oriented Germany:
Most people don’t realize the full extent Blavatsky’s theosophy had in Third Reich Germany let alone today’s Western post-modern new age culture. The ecclectic new age movement, with its foundation in theosophy and gnosticism all the way back to Babylonian occult sciences, has invaded almost every area of American culture. Take this quote for instance:
“… Madame Blavatsky … stands out as the fountainhead of modern occult thought, and was either the originator and/or popularizer of many of the ideas and terms which have a century later been assembled within the New Age Movement. The Theosophical Society, which she cofounded, has been the major advocate of occult philosophy in the West and the single most important avenue of Eastern teaching to the West. ” link

In fact, the long running multiple StargateTV series, spin-offs from the blockbuster movie with the same title, have as their basis theosophical thought, from aliens to evolution to Atlantis to its theme of ascension and ascended masters link. It is unfortunate, but for the most part, Hollywood is both pro-Obama, while turning a blind eye to his racist upbringng in black liberation theology, and pro-occult new age, while often times making fun of conservatives and evangelical Christians.
Together with El-Moyra and Saint Germain, Kuthumi was one of the original Theosophical ascended masters who originally contacted Blavatsky. If you are not steeped in the occult or knowledgeable about this from an apologetic standpoint, it may sound very strange to you, and it should. And regardless if you believe these ethereal spirits to be real or not, their tentacles reach to nearly eveyone on the globe since they have helped place people into powerful positions, from the Fuehrer of Germany to possibly Obama as a US President.
Related to this, Evers not only channeled support for Obama, she channeled negative support for Hillary Clinton link This is odd since occultism, especially theosophical occultism, stresses feminist goddess worship. Evers states while channeling about Hillary: “we must add that [Hillary's] candidacy is supported by those dark forces that the light bearers struggle against.” Ignoring or dissing Hillary from new agers such as Evers to Marianne Williamson to channeling spirits to Oprah may have been key in Obama’s primary victory. It seems as if the channeling spirits know who would make a worse president and then they support that person.
Koot-Hoomi is often made to look like Jesus. Some Websites state that Blavatsky made up the title as a play on words for the co-founder of Theosophy, Dr. H.S. Olcott link, e.g. calling him the ol’ koot, but this perspective is coming from an ‘excluded middle’ Westernized ideology, whether Christian or atheistic. Although fraud is likely involved in theosophy at times, real dangerous deceptive occult activity is most likely experienced. How else do you explain hundreds of new agers today channeling these same spirits together with the Bible saying this is real and dangerous?
Kuthumi could very well be a high ranking fallen angel or fallen member of the divine council link. Unlike using our own Christian authority in dealing with lower level evil spirits, according to the Bible (Jude 8, Pslam 82, etc.) we are to seek God’s rebuke of these more powerful fallen created cosmic beings. Jude 8-9 states:
“8 In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings. 9 But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Speaking of Scripture, it is important to note that occultism, although forgivable, is sinful and condemned in the Bible for Jews and Christians. Deuteronomy 18 states:
“9b …do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in [a] the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium [channeler] or spiritist or who consults the de@d. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. 13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.”
A loving God is clearly warning those he cares about that contact with these spirits is dangerous since they are fallen and evil. God only wants you to be in communion with him, where he will send you holy angels (Psalm 91) whose main purpose is to point you to a loving God, not to put attention on themselves.
Regardless of new age rhetoric stating Obama is an anointed lightworker, the reality is that since most of the occult is connected to Obama–the most liberal member of the US Senate–then, from a Biblical perspective, Obama is really on the dark side, or more likely, one foot on the dark side and one foot sometimes on the light side with the hope his two feet become grounded on the light side. New age occult lightworkers are really darkworkers, whether they know it or not. If Obama wins, Christians are still commanded to pray for him with the hope he truly comes to the real light, with the real righteous wind at his back link link instead of occult sulfurous hot air.
It should be noted that Blavatsky taught a philosophy of history quite opposite the truth of Christian dispensationalism. She taught a series of seven root races and wthin each root race are several sub races. Following the fifth sub race of N@zi Germany, the sixth sub race is to commence in the USA link and spread worldwide with a mental development emphasis link. Many new agers and theosophists probabaly think Obama is the man for the job, regardless of his checkered past.
A new dangerous post-Christian-like Fourth Reich, or more appropriately an extension of the Third Reich, could be in the making, which will of course end in disaster as it did in Third Reich Germany since God despises the anti-Biblical occult. Start preparing in case things go bad. Think of Y2K as a practice run for what may happen under an Obama presidency. Remember too that Bible prophecy has little to say about the United States in the end times so what is happening now was foretold. Jesus’ Kingdom is a much greater hope. It is real hope and change we can believe in.
In closing, the ascension that is talked about in theosophy and the new age movement–sometimes mentioned here–usually refers to a global ascension where the negative lower vibrational people vanish off the planet to another realm. This is clearly a pre-tribulational rapture deception in the making. Even though Christians may face severe hardship in the coming months, there is still the ‘blessed hope’ of 1 Thess 4:16-17
If you haven’t voted yet, don’t vote for Obama. If you voted Obama already, you should put on sackloth and ashes for a few days and ask the uncreated monotheistic personal God for forgiveness. Take the words of a commenter from a different blog on how he changed his mind just before November 4th (and it is mostly economy related):
Posted by: RickyRicardo on Nov 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM
You know, I orginally thought that we were at a point in our country’s history where Obamaoffered the fresh new leadership our country needed to get us back on the right track. I must admit, however, that the more I learn about the man and all that has been hidden from the public by the media that is CLEARLY in the tank for him(that’s actually another shameful issue that the press will have to come to grips with), the more I have become convinced that his election will mean the desctruction of all that has made this country great. His plan is wonderful if you currently do not contribute to society, pay taxes, hold down a job, etc. because these people will be better off. But anyone who is employed, regardless of what you make, hang onto your wallets. And don’t think your retirement account is safe either. For these reasons, I did something last Friday that I never remotely thought was a possibility six months ago….I voted for John McCain. link
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THE THEOSOPHY OF BARACK OBAMA

THE THEOSOPHY OF BARACK OBAMA


U.S.A. President Follows
Principles Taught by Universal Wisdom      
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
                                                                     
 Barack  Obama
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A 2013 Editorial Note: 
Working with pragmatism and common sense,
the humanistic thinker who presides the most powerful
country on Earth has abandoned conventional militarism
as a priority and helps prepare - in a rather silent way - the
ethical foundations of future civilizations. The following text
describes his philosophical trajectory until his first election in 2008.
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“The true Theosophist belongs to no
cult or sect, yet belongs to each and all.”
(Robert Crosbie)
“In our household the Bible, the Koran, and
the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside
books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.
On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag
me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist
temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the
Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”
(Barack Obama)
“To form the nucleus  of a Universal
Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction
of race, creed, sex, caste, or color…”
(The first object of modern theosophical movement)
“The walls between old allies on either side
of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between
the countries with the most and those with the least
cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes;
natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew
cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.”
(Barack Obama)
Theosophy is a planetary philosophy, and its first goal is to stimulate an understanding of Universal Brotherhood as a law of Nature.
Both theosophy and the theosophical movement are beyond labels, personal names, ideologies or organizations. The field of action for classical theosophy and its students is defined by real, yet invisible factors, like an understanding of the laws of nature, an ethical consciousness, and a feeling of solidarity towards all beings. 
Having access to divine wisdom is the goal of souls, not of institutions or corporations. Hence William Judge, one of the founders of the modern theosophical movement, wrote:  
“The Theosophical Movement being continuous, it is to be found in all times and in all nations. Wherever thought has struggled to be free, wherever spiritual ideas, as opposed to forms and dogmatism, have been promulgated, there the great movement is to be discerned.” [1]  
From such a viewpoint, a citizen who has good will, who adopted noble goals and possesses an open mind must be seen as a theosophist, even if he is not a member of any theosophical association. It does not matter whether he is a Jew, a Muslim, a Christian or a Buddhist; or if he follows some other philosophy. As long as he understands and shares the universality of planetary ethics, his life helps opening room for the perception of universal brotherhood, and he is a true theosophist at the soul-level.
This may be the case with Mr. Barack Obama, who was first elected as president of the United States in November 2008, and reelected in 2012.  
Upon examining a few facts from Obama’s life and the books he wrote, one can evaluate the degree of affinity between his efforts and the Cause of modern theosophical effort.
Dissolving Walls Between Nations, Races and Religions
In July 2008, Barack Obama spoke in Berlin, Germany, to a multitude calculated in 200,000 people.  He opened the unprecedented event by saying he was there as “a citizen of the world”, an expression which actually contains, in itself, the ideas of planetary citizenship and of a world without borders. Obama was then a candidate in the U.S. presidential elections,  talking to a street meeting in an European country.  On the occasion, he presented his idea of cooperation among all nations, which corresponds to the first object of the modern theosophical movement.
Referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, he said:
“Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity. That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another. The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before. After centuries of strife, the people of Europe have formed a union of promise and prosperity.”
And he added:
“Here, at the base of a column built to mark victory in war, we meet in the center of a Europe at peace. Not only have walls come down in Berlin, but they have come down in Belfast, where Protestant and Catholic found a way to live together; in the Balkans, where our Atlantic alliance ended wars and brought savage war criminals to justice; and in South Africa, where the struggle of a courageous people defeated apartheid. So history reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who listen to each other, learn from each other, and, must of all, trust each other.” [2]
To Liberate The World From Nuclear Weapons
In the same speech, Barack Obama said:  
“This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. The two superpowers that faced each other across the wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have built and all that we love. With that wall gone, we need not stand idly by and watch the further spread of the deadly atom. It is time to secure all loose nuclear materials; to stop the spread of nuclear weapons; and to reduce the arsenals from another era. (…) This is the moment to begin the work of seeking the peace of a world without nuclear weapons.”
He then examined the need for peace in the Middle East, and mentioned the ecology of the planet:
“This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. Let us resolve that all nations - including my own - will act with the same seriousness of purpose as has your nation [Germany] [3], and reduce the carbon we send into our atmosphere. This is the moment to give our children back their future. This is the moment to stand as one.”[4]
The Need for Remaking the World  
Obama seemed to know well the direction he wanted to go. And he could not be accused of having too modest a goal. Born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan citizen, he closed his first speech outside the United States with these words:  
“People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time. I know my country has not perfected itself. (…) We have made our share of mistakes. (…) But I also know how much I love America. I know that for more than two centuries, we have strived (…) to form a more perfect union; to seek, with other nations, a more hopeful world. Our allegiance has never been to any particular tribe or kingdom - indeed, every language is spoken in our country; every culture has left its imprint on ours; every point of view is expressed in our public squares. What has always united us - what has always driven our people, what drew my father to America’s shores - is a set of ideals that speak to aspirations shared by all people; that we can live free from fear and free from want; that we can speak our minds and assemble with whomever we choose  and worship as we please. (…)  People of Berlin - and people of the world - the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye to the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history and answer our destiny and remake the world once again.” (“Change We Can Believe In”, pp. 270-271)
More than one year before his Berlin speech, Obama already expressed the same clarity of goals in his public speeches.
In February 2007, on his Declaration of Candidacy, he said he would work for an ethical and ecological change in planetary scale:
“Let’s be the generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil. We can harness homegrown, alternative fuels like ethanol and spur the production of more fuel-efficient cars. We can set up a system for capping greenhouse gases. We can turn this crisis of global warming into a moment of opportunity for innovation, and job creation, and an incentive for businesses that will serve as a model for the world. Let’s be the generation that makes future generations proud of what we did here.” [5]
Unafraid of adopting visionary goals, and looking much further than those North-American elections, Obama said in that inaugural occasion:
“And if you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see, as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations, then I’m ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you. Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth.” [6]
The Golden Rule  
Obama’s project regarding the United States and the world was accused by his adversaries of being too vague and ambiguous. He was even denounced as “not quite American”.  The truth was that he had a deeper and more complex vision than mere nationalistic and electoral slogans. The foundations of his approach to social reality are simultaneously inter-religious, ethical and philosophical. The center of his thought is on the well-known Golden Rule, an ancient principle of the Eastern wisdom, and of the Greek classical philosophy, taught by Confucius in the “Analects” (see Book V, paragraph XI) and only later adopted  by Christianity. This timeless ethical principle could be correctly called “the law of good karma”.
Obama clarifies:
“In the end, then, what is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than what all the world’s great religions demand - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Let us be our brother’s keeper, Scripture tells us. Let us be our sister’s keeper. Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect that spirit as well.”[7]
The Aloha Spirit
There seems to be an authentically theosophical substance in the real life of Barack Obama, which can explain why he makes a constantly renewed “brave declaration of principles”, to use the words from the Golden Stairs of H. P. Blavatsky’s theosophy. His “mantramic” teaching of theosophical principles is especially clear regarding the essential unity of all religions, in Ethics as in Wisdom.
But what exactly is his direct experience regarding universal wisdom?
In what an atmosphere was he educated?
Barack was born in August 1961 in Hawaii, and it is not pure chance that his life and ideas express, up to a certain point, the “Aloha spirit”.
The word “Aloha” is a truly sacred mantram in Hawaiian culture, which is known all over the world for its open-mindedness and its feeling of brotherhood towards people from all nations. “Aloha” is a greeting and also an universalist and theosophical concept. The term is equivalent to the sanskrit word “Namaste”, which means “that which is divine in me greets that which is divine in you”.  It also means “Shalom”, or “Peace”;  and “Compassion”, and “Friendship”.
The so-called “Aloha spirit” indicates a mental state based on peace with oneself and peace with all beings. The speech, the philosophy and the actions of Mr. Obama seem to express something of this mantram and of this culture present in his youth.
His maternal grandparents, who played a central role in his education as a boy, not only lived in Hawaii with him, but they also were influenced in some moment by the Unitarian Universalist Church.  That was a Church which worked for the fraternization of all religions and kept close ties with the hindu society Brahmo Samaj.  The Russian thinker Helena Blavatsky wrote a great deal about the Brahmo Samaj movement. She admired its founder. She criticized the mistakes made by is later leaders.[8]  Barack Obama himself wrote this on his maternal grandfather:
“He liked the idea that Unitarians drew on the scriptures of all the great religions”.
According to Barack, his grandfather considered joining the Unitarians a unique opportunity: it was “like you get five religions in one”.[9]
An African Medicine Man With Healing Powers  
Hussein Onyango Obama was Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather. A Medicine Man in Kenya, Africa, he was a Muslim who had healing powers and dedicated his life to local traditions. [10]  
Barack Obama’s father, who had the same name Barack, was also Kenyan. Barack, the father, was his son’s hero and spiritual master.  He left in the life of little Barack a transcendent presence and a mystical influence. In the world of Barack, the son, the intangible realm where his absent father existed got, somewhat occultly, mixed with the very origins of the Kosmos. And this is more than a psychological event.
The origin and destiny of the Kosmos is a central topic in Theosophy. In the Eastern esoteric wisdom, it relates to the great initiations and the path that leads to them.
All along her work “The Secret Doctrine”, H. P. Blavatsky makes a comparative study of the main narratives about the origin of the universe and mankind. She shows the points in common among the Chaldean Account of Genesis, the Jewish Kabalah, the Jewish and Christian Bibles, the Central American “Popol Vuh”, the Hindu “Puranas”, and scriptures of many other traditions. Students of esoteric philosophy will see a meaning in the fact that Barack Obama faced the cosmic issue during his very childhood, and associated it to his quest for a mythic, heroic and inner father.
Obama confesses, with a degree of self-irony:
“The path of my father’s life occupied the same terrain as a book my mother once bought for me, a book called Origins, a collection of creation tales from around the world, stories of Genesis and the tree where man was born, Prometheus and the gift of fire, the tortoise of Hindu legend that floated in space, supporting the weight of the world on its back. Later, when I became more familiar with the narrower path to happiness to be found in television and the movies, I’d become troubled by questions. What supported the tortoise? Why did an omnipotent God let a snake cause such grief? Why didn’t my father return? But at the age of five or six I was satisfied to leave these mysteries intact...” [11]
An Universalist Mother  
It was Barack’s mother, a white North-American lady, who taught him in daily life an inter-religious and philosophical view of life, besides the habit of daily self-training and self-discipline.  She kept a critical distance regarding dogmatic religions. This she had in common  with the original and classical theosophy, while the pseudo-theosophy created by Annie Besant has preferred to create its own versions of dogmatic sects, with their priests and rituals. 
Barack writes that his grandparents transmitted to his mother a combination of realism and joviality, and he adds:
“Her own experiences as a bookish, sensitive child growing up in small towns in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones. Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall the sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three-quarters of the world’s people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation - and who in the same breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created in seven days, all geologic and astrophysical evidence to the contrary. She remembered the respectable church ladies who were always so quick to shun those unable to meet their standards of propriety, even as they desperately concealed their own dirty little secrets; the church fathers who uttered racial epithets and chiseled their workers out of any nickel that they could.”
Such a “religious” mediocrity did not occur by chance.
There is a wider context around this sort of narrow-mindedness, which is not a local phenomenon. It constitutes a global problem, decidedly denounced and fought by Helena Blavatsky and a few other theosophists since 1875.
True religiosity cannot be the prisoner of an institution or ritual, and it can’t be far from philosophy or science. It must make progress in an interdisciplinary way and accepting liberty of thought. In the famous Letter 10 of the Mahatma Letters (or Letter 88 in the Chronological edition), a Master of the Himalayas - a raja-yogi - says that two thirds of human suffering are caused by the falsehood and illusions of conventional, priestly religions.
Barack Obama’s narrative goes on:    
“For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. This isn’t to say that she provided me with no religious instruction. In her mind, a working knowledge of the world’s great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. But I was made to understand that such religious samplings required no sustained commitment on my part - no introspective exertion or self-flagellation. Religion was an expression of human culture, she would explain, not its wellspring, just one of the many ways - and not necessarily the best way - that man attempted to control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our lives. In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist that she would become; it was a phenomenon to the treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.” [12]
Obama adds this on his mother and teacher:
“And yet for all her professed secularism, my mother was in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I’ve ever known. She had an unswerving instinct for kindness, charity, and love, and spent much of her life acting on that instinct, sometimes to her detriment. Without the help of religious texts or outside authorities, she worked mightily to instill in me the values that many Americans learn in Sunday school: honesty, empathy, discipline, delayed gratification, and hard work. She raged at poverty and injustice, and scorned those who were indifferent to both.” [13]
A Theosophical View of Life
Barack built his life on these philosophical and emotional foundations. While having intellectual depth, such principles are inseparable from practical actions in the world.
In the books Obama wrote, the reader finds many passages in which he makes once and again, and under many forms, an open-minded declaration of principles. It is not difficult to see that Obama’s view of life can be called theosophical, both in the classical and modern sense of the word. He teaches theosophical ethics by speech and action.
He said:
“Given the increasing diversity of America’s population, the dangers of sectarianism have been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
And Obama goes on:
“But let’s even assume that we only had Christians within our borders. Whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? (…) Which passages of Scriptures should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests that slavery is all right and eating shellfish is an abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage so radical that it’s doubtful that our Defense Department would survive its application?”
Obama thinks and openly says that all forms of blind belief in dead letter must be abandoned. The essential principles must be perceived, and they are beyond visible forms. Obama concludes by choosing common sense:
“What our deliberative, pluralistic democracy does demand is that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals must be subject to argument and amenable to reason.” [14]
The President Doesn’t Make Miracles
As president of the United States, Obama didn’t make many visible miracles.  
Working under Karma - that is, within the historical limitations of his own time - he produced an international atmosphere leading to a growing sense of  respect for peace and for non-violent conflict-resolution. 
The militaristic euphoria of previous times was abandoned.  He helped create an atmosphere where dialogue is possible.  Besides his clear words, Obama also silently stimulates ethics and understanding at various levels of reality, apparent and non-apparent.   
Some of his critics, however, are rather myope and can only see small objects situated immediately under their noses.
They are happy to exaggerate short term difficulties and mistakes of Obama’s administration in the conventional and material aspects of daily existence. This is part of life. Meanwhile, Mr. Obama helps build and establish the ethical and humanistic foundations of the civilization of the future, the civilization of brotherhood.  
The next evolutionary step for our international community is a shared respect for peace and justice, and it must be kept daily in view.
In September 2011, Obama said in an address to the United Nations General Assembly:
“It is the nature of our imperfect world that we are forced to learn these lessons over and over again. Conflict and repression will endure so long as some people refuse to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Yet that is precisely why we have built institutions like this - to bind our fates together, to help us recognize ourselves in each other - because those who came before us believed that peace is preferable to war, and freedom is preferable to suppression, and prosperity is preferable to poverty. That’s the message that comes not from capitals, but from citizens, from our people. And when the cornerstone of this very building was put in place, President Truman came here to New York and said, ‘The United Nations is essentially an expression of the moral nature of man’s aspirations.’ The moral nature of man’s aspirations. As we live in a world that is changing at a breathtaking pace, that’s a lesson that we must never forget. Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible. So, together, let us be resolved to see that it is defined by our hopes and not by our fears. Together, let us make peace, but a peace, most importantly, that will last.” [15]
NOTES:
[1] From the article “The Theosophical Movement”, by W. Q. Judge. It can be seen at www.TheosophyOnline.com and its associated websites. It is also at “Theosophical Articles”, W. Q. Judge, The Theosophy Co., Los Angeles, 1980, a two-volume edition, see vol.  II,  p. 124.
[2] “Change We Can Believe In - Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise”, Three Rivers Press, New York, 2008,  274 pp., see pp. 265-266.
[3] Germany is one of the countries where environmental consciousness is relatively strong. The then chancellor Angela Merkel herself defended environmental causes before leading the country. 
[4] “Change We Can Believe In”, see pp. 267-269.
[5] “Change We Can Believe In”, pp. 198-199.
[6] “Change We Can Believe In”, pp. 201-202.
[7] “Change We Can Believe In”, p.  228.
[8] See, for instance, “The Collected Writings”, Helena Blavatsky, TPH, India, volume III, pp. 55-61 and pp. 286-287.  And also “The Collected Writings”, volume IV, pp. 439-443,  among other texts.     
[9] “Dreams From My Father”, Barack Obama, Three Rivers Press, 1995 and 2004, New York,  458 pp., see p. 17.
[10] “Dreams From My Father”, Barack Obama, see p. 09.
[11] “Dreams From My Father”, p. 10.
[12] “The Audacity of Hope”, Three Rivers Press, 376 pp., 2006, pp. 203-204.   
[13] “The Audacity of Hope”, see p. 205.  
[14] “The Audacity of Hope”, see p. 218. 
[15] “Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly”, United Nations. Link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/21/remarks-president-obama-address-united-nations-general-assembly.
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The first version of “The Theosophy of Barack Obama” was published in 2008 in Portuguese language by www.FilosofiaEsoterica.com and its associated websites. Original title: “A Visão Planetária de Barack Obama”. The text was published in English on November the 7th, 2012.
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